To provide a layered structure having a widened interlayer distance and easy to be minutely dispersed without high shear, while existing layered structure has an interlayer distance of less than 4 nm and requires high shear force to exfoliate a layer and has a problem in workability.

This layered structure is a layered structure comprising a surfactant layer (A) obtainable by utilizing the self-assembly of a surfactant and a sol-gel reaction by a metal alkoxide, and a plate-shaped composition layer (B), and has at least two peaks in an X-ray diffraction pattern, and the d value of these peaks satisfies the equation: dn=(1/n)d1 (wherein each sign has its specific meaning), and the d1 value of the peak of the smallest diffraction angle (2θ) is not smaller than 4 nm but not greater than 100 nm.