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Business Segment and Geographic Data Information (Information Concerning Consolidated Operations by Business Segment) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020 | Dec. 31, 2019 | Dec. 31, 2018
Revenues | [1] | $ 19,140 |  | $ 18,450 |  | $ 18,486
Depreciation and amortization |  | 796 |  | 917 |  | 882
Operating Profit |  | 3,244 |  | 2,991 |  | 2,229
Other (income) expense, net | [2] | (54) |  | (210) |  | 1
Capital Spending |  | 1,217 |  | 1,209 |  | 877
Goodwill | [3] | 1,895 |  | 1,467 |  | 1,474
Assets |  | 17,523 |  | 15,283 |  | 14,518
Softex Indonesia [Member] |  |  |  |  |  |
Business Acquisition, Transaction Costs |  | 32 |  |  |  |
United States |  |  |  |  |  |
Revenues |  | 9,679 |  | 9,027 |  | 8,803
Personal Care |  |  |  |  |  |
Revenues |  | 9,339 | [1] | 9,108 | [1] | 9,037
Depreciation and amortization |  | 347 |  | 430 |  | 426
Operating Profit | [4] | 1,933 |  | 1,904 |  | 1,833
Capital Spending |  | 616 |  | 518 |  | 415
Goodwill | [3] | 984 |  | 557 |  | 564
Assets |  | 8,486 |  | 6,630 |  | 6,208
Personal Care | Softex Indonesia [Member] |  |  |  |  |  |
Goodwill |  | 390 |  |  |  |
Consumer Tissue |  |  |  |  |  |
Revenues | [1] | 6,718 |  | 5,993 |  | 6,015
Depreciation and amortization |  | 334 |  | 372 |  | 331
Operating Profit | [4] | 1,448 |  | 1,007 |  | 875
Capital Spending |  | 391 |  | 489 |  | 299
Goodwill | [3] | 519 |  | 522 |  | 522
Assets |  | 5,227 |  | 4,954 |  | 4,738
K-C Professional and Other |  |  |  |  |  |
Revenues | [1] | 3,019 |  | 3,292 |  | 3,382
Depreciation and amortization |  | 111 |  | 111 |  | 121
Operating Profit | [4] | 528 |  | 657 |  | 634
Capital Spending |  | 204 |  | 195 |  | 157
Goodwill | [3] | 392 |  | 388 |  | 388
Assets |  | 2,551 |  | 2,442 |  | 2,285
Corporate and Other |  |  |  |  |  |
Revenues | [1] | 64 |  | 57 |  | 52
Depreciation and amortization |  | 4 |  | 4 |  | 4
Operating Profit | [5] | (719) |  | (787) |  | (1,112)
Capital Spending |  | 6 |  | 7 |  | 6
Goodwill | [3] | 0 |  | 0 |  | 0
Assets |  | 1,259 |  | 1,257 |  | 1,287
Corporate and Other | Softex Indonesia [Member] |  |  |  |  |  |
Business Acquisition, Transaction Costs |  | 32 |  |  |  |
2018 Global Restructuring Program | Personal Care |  |  |  |  |  |
Restructuring Charges |  | 156 |  | 252 |  | 528
2018 Global Restructuring Program | Consumer Tissue |  |  |  |  |  |
Restructuring Charges |  | 176 |  | 176 |  | 229
2018 Global Restructuring Program | K-C Professional and Other |  |  |  |  |  |
Restructuring Charges |  | 53 |  | 75 |  | 125
Other Income | 2018 Global Restructuring Program |  |  |  |  |  |
Restructuring Charges |  |  |  | (194) |  | (12)
Corporate and Other | 2018 Global Restructuring Program |  |  |  |  |  |
Restructuring Charges |  | $ 392 |  | $ 515 |  | $ 921
[1] | Net sales in the U.S. to third parties totaled $9,679, $9,027 and $8,803 in 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively. No other individual country's net sales exceeds 10 percent of total net sales.
[2] | Other (income) and expense, net for 2020 includes business tax credits of $77 related to a favorable legal ruling that resolved certain matters related to prior years' business taxes in Brazil.. For 2019, it includes income of $31 from a gain on the sale of property associated with a former manufacturing facility that was closed in 2012 as part of a past restructuring, and for 2019 and 2018, it includes income of $194 and $12 related to the 2018 Global Restructuring Program.
[3] | Stockholders' Equity The changes in the components of AOCI attributable to Kimberly-Clark, net of tax, are as follows:
|  | Unrealized Translation |  | Defined Benefit Pension Plans |  | Other Postretirement Benefit Plans |  | Cash Flow Hedges and Other
Balance as of December 31, 2018 |  | $ | (2,297) |  |  | $ | (1,017) |  |  | $ | 12 |  |  | $ | 3 |
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications |  | 26 |  |  | (27) |  |  | (24) |  |  | (22) |
(Income) loss reclassified from AOCI |  | — |  |  | 65 |  | (a) | (1) |  | (a) | (12) |
Net current period other comprehensive income (loss) |  | 26 |  |  | 38 |  |  | (25) |  |  | (34) |
Balance as of December 31, 2019 |  | (2,271) |  |  | (979) |  |  | (13) |  |  | (31) |
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications |  | 114 |  |  | 4 |  |  | (26) |  |  | (31) |
(Income) loss reclassified from AOCI |  | — |  |  | 63 |  | (a) | (1) |  | (a) | (1) |
Net current period other comprehensive income (loss) |  | 114 |  |  | 67 |  |  | (27) |  |  | (32) |
Balance as of December 31, 2020 |  | $ | (2,157) |  |  | $ | (912) |  |  | $ | (40) |  |  | $ | (63) |
(a) Included in computation of net periodic pension and other postretirement benefits costs (see Note 7). Included in the above defined benefit pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans balances as of December 31, 2020 is $958 and $6 of unrecognized net actuarial loss and unrecognized net prior service credit, respectively. The changes in the components of AOCI attributable to Kimberly-Clark, including the tax effect, are as follows:
| Year Ended December 31
| 2020 |  | 2019 |  | 2018
Unrealized translation | $ | 98 |  |  | $ | 21 |  |  | $ | (408) |
Tax effect(a) | 16 |  |  | 5 |  |  | (25) |
| 114 |  |  | 26 |  |  | (433) |
Defined benefit pension plans |  |  |  |  |
Unrecognized net actuarial loss and transition amount |  |  |  |  |
Funded status recognition | 24 |  |  | (17) |  |  | (57) |
Amortization | 41 |  |  | 44 |  |  | 47 |
Settlements and curtailments | 49 |  |  | 46 |  |  | 134 |
Currency and other | (26) |  |  | (13) |  |  | 29 |
| 88 |  |  | 60 |  |  | 153 |
Unrecognized prior service cost/credit |  |  |  |  |
Funded status recognition | 2 |  |  | (1) |  |  | (22) |
Amortization | (4) |  |  | (5) |  |  | (8) |
Curtailments | — |  |  | (1) |  |  | 2 |
Currency and other | 1 |  |  | (2) |  |  | (1) |
| (1) |  |  | (9) |  |  | (29) |
Tax effect(a) | (20) |  |  | (13) |  |  | (165) |
| 67 |  |  | 38 |  |  | (41) |
Other postretirement benefit plans |  |  |  |  |
Unrecognized net actuarial loss and transition amount and other | (35) |  |  | (35) |  |  | 79 |
Tax effect(a) | 8 |  |  | 10 |  |  | (28) |
| (27) |  |  | (25) |  |  | 51 |
Cash flow hedges and other |  |  |  |  |
Recognition of effective portion of hedges | (32) |  |  | (23) |  |  | 56 |
Amortization | (2) |  |  | (16) |  |  | 12 |
Currency and other | (5) |  |  | (1) |  |  | (2) |
Tax effect(a) | 7 |  |  | 6 |  |  | (23) |
| (32) |  |  | (34) |  |  | 43 |
Change in AOCI | $ | 122 |  |  | $ | 5 |  |  | $ | (380) |
(a) The Tax effect for Unrealized translation, Defined benefit pension plans, Other postretirement benefit plans and Cash flow hedges and other includes reductions of $18, $125, $5 and $8, respectively, for stranded tax effects reclassified from AOCI to Retained earnings in 2018. Amounts are reclassified from AOCI into Cost of products sold, Nonoperating expense, Interest expense, or Other (income) and expense, net, as applicable, in the consolidated income statement. Net unrealized currency gains or losses resulting from the translation of assets and liabilities of foreign subsidiaries, except those in highly inflationary economies, are recorded in AOCI. For these operations, changes in exchange rates generally do not affect cash flows; therefore, unrealized translation adjustments are recorded in AOCI rather than net income. Upon sale or substantially complete liquidation of any of these subsidiaries, the applicable unrealized translation adjustment would be removed from AOCI and reported as part of the gain or loss on the sale or liquidation. The change in unrealized translation in 2020 is primarily due to the strengthening of various foreign currencies versus the U.S. dollar offset by certain currencies that weakened, most notably the Brazilian real. Also included in unrealized translation amounts are the effects of foreign exchange rate changes on intercompany balances of a long-term investment nature and transactions designated as hedges of net foreign investments.
[4] | Segment operating profit excludes Other (income) and expense, net and income and expenses not associated with the business segments.
[5] | Corporate & Other includes charges of $392, $515 and $921 related to the 2018 Global Restructuring Program in 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively. Restructuring charges for the 2018 Global Restructuring Program related to the Personal Care, Consumer Tissue and K-C Professional business segments were $156, $176 and $53 for 2020, $252, $176 and $75 for 2019 and $528, $229 and $125 for 2018, respectively. Corporate & Other also includes acquisition-related costs of $32 associated with the acquisition of Softex Indonesia in 2020.

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