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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operation, Release of Deferred Tax Liability

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operation, Transaction Related Costs

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operations, Contingent Consideration, Maximum Period Until Achieved Consideration Is Payable

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Disposal Group Including Discontinued Operations, Contingent Consideration, Payment Due Following Closing, Period

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Gain (Loss) on Disposition of Business, After Tax

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Value of equity interests (such as common shares, preferred shares, or partnership interest) issued or issuable to acquire the entity.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Amount of gain (loss) from sale and disposal of integrated set of activities and assets capable of being conducted and managed for purpose of providing return in form of dividend, lower cost, or other economic benefit to investor, owner, member and participant.

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The cash inflow associated with the amount received from the sale of a portion of the company's business, for example a segment, division, branch or other business, during the period.

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Acquisitions and Divestitures - Narrative (Details) - USD ($)		1 Months Ended		3 Months Ended			9 Months Ended
	May 02, 2023	Jun. 30, 2022	Feb. 28, 2022	Sep. 30, 2023	Mar. 31, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022	Mar. 31, 2022
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Pre-tax gain (loss) on sale				$ 0		$ (2,000,000)	$ (69,000,000)	$ 1,897,000,000
Disposal Group, Disposed of by Sale, Not Discontinued Operations \| Engineering Solutions Segment
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Divestiture consideration	$ 975,000,000
Proceeds from divestiture of business	750,000,000
Disposal Group, Disposed of by Sale, Not Discontinued Operations \| Engineering Solutions Business
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Divestiture consideration	975,000,000
Proceeds from divestiture of business	$ 750,000,000
Pre-tax gain (loss) on sale							(120,000,000)
Disposition related costs							16,000,000
Gain (loss) on disposition after tax							(182,000,000)
Release of deferred tax liabilities							157,000,000
Disposal Group, Disposed of by Sale, Not Discontinued Operations \| LCD
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Pre-tax gain (loss) on sale						(15,000,000)		505,000,000
Gain (loss) on disposition after tax						(11,000,000)		378,000,000
Disposal Group, Disposed of by Sale, Not Discontinued Operations \| LCD \| Market Intelligence
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Pre-tax gain (loss) on sale							46,000,000
Gain (loss) on disposition after tax							34,000,000
Contingent payment due following closing, period					6 months
Disposal Group, Disposed of by Sale, Not Discontinued Operations \| LCD \| Indices
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Pre-tax gain (loss) on sale							4,000,000
Gain (loss) on disposition after tax							$ 3,000,000
Disposal Group, Disposed of by Sale, Not Discontinued Operations \| Leveraged Commentary And Data And Leveraged Loan Indices
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Divestiture consideration		$ 600,000,000
Contingent payment		$ 50,000,000
Contingent consideration, maximum period until achieved consideration is payable		6 months
Disposal Group, Disposed of by Sale, Not Discontinued Operations \| Leveraged Loan Indices
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Pre-tax gain (loss) on sale						14,000,000		52,000,000
Gain (loss) on disposition after tax						12,000,000		43,000,000
Disposal Group, Disposed of by Sale, Not Discontinued Operations \| Base Chemicals
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Divestiture consideration		$ 295,000,000
Pre-tax gain (loss) on sale		$ 0
Disposal Group, Disposed of by Sale, Not Discontinued Operations \| CUSIP Global Services
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Divestiture consideration									$ 1,925,000,000
Pre-tax gain (loss) on sale						(2,000,000)		1,341,000,000
Gain (loss) on disposition after tax						$ (2,000,000)		$ 1,005,000,000.000
Disposal Group, Disposed of by Sale, Not Discontinued Operations \| OPIS
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Divestiture consideration			$ 1,150,000,000
Pre-tax gain (loss) on sale			0
IHS Markit
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Fair value of S&P Global common stock and replacement equity awards			$ 43,500,000,000