Lighting device and display device

A lighting device comprising:

• light sources;
• and
• a light guide plate including an edge surface and a pair of plate surfaces, a part of the edge surface being a light entrance surface through which light from the light sources enters, and one of the pair of plate surfaces being a light exit surface through which the light exits and another one of the pair of plate surfaces being an opposite plate surface opposite from the light exit surface, wherein
• the light guide plate includes
• light collecting portions on one of the light exit surface and the opposite plate surface, projecting from the one of the light exit surface and the opposite plate surface and arranged in a predetermined direction and configured to collect light toward in a normal direction of the light exit surface, and
• an exit light reflection portion provided in a recessed portion that is formed by two adjacent light collecting portions and configured to reflect light travelling within the light guide plate and facilitate exiting of light from the light guide plate.