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Retirement Plans (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Aug. 31, 2024
Retirement Plan Tables [Abstract] |
Schedule of Retirement Plan Costs | Our retirement plans costs for the three-month periods ended August 31 were as follows (in millions):
|  | 2024 |  |  | 2023 |
Defined benefit pension plans |  | $ | 70 |  |  | $ | 91 |
Defined contribution plans |  |  | 287 |  |  |  | 240 |
Postretirement healthcare plans |  |  | 22 |  |  |  | 23 |
|  | $ | 379 |  |  | $ | 354 |
Schedule of Net Periodic Benefit Cost | Net periodic benefit cost of the pension and postretirement healthcare plans for the three-month periods ended August 31 included the following components (in millions):
|  | U.S. Pension Plans |  |  | International Pension Plans |  |  | Postretirement Healthcare Plans |
|  | 2024 |  |  | 2023 |  |  | 2024 |  |  | 2023 |  |  | 2024 |  |  | 2023 |
Service cost |  | $ | 125 |  |  | $ | 136 |  |  | $ | 9 |  |  | $ | 10 |  |  | $ | 7 |  |  | $ | 7 |
Interest cost |  |  | 361 |  |  |  | 341 |  |  |  | 12 |  |  |  | 10 |  |  |  | 16 |  |  |  | 16 |
Expected return on plan assets |  |  | (430 | ) |  |  | (400 | ) |  |  | (5 | ) |  |  | (4 | ) |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
Amortization of prior service credit and other |  |  | (2 | ) |  |  | (2 | ) |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | (1 | ) |  |  | — |
Net periodic benefit cost |  | $ | 54 |  |  | $ | 75 |  |  | $ | 16 |  |  | $ | 16 |  |  | $ | 22 |  |  | $ | 23 |

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