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Earnings Per Share (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2012
Earnings Per Share Tables [Abstract] |
Earnings Per Share Basic And Diluted Table |
|  |  |  | 2012 |  | 2011
|  |  |  | Income |  | Shares |  | $ per Share |  | Income |  | Shares |  | $ per Share
|  |  |  | (in millions except per share data)
BASIC EARNINGS PER SHARE |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Income from continuing operations attributable |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  | to The AES Corporation common stockholders |  | $ | 345 |  | 766 |  | $ | 0.45 |  | $ | 237 |  | 787 |  | $ | 0.30
EFFECT OF DILUTIVE SECURITIES |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Convertible securities |  |  | 6 |  | 15 |  |  | - |  |  | - |  | - |  |  | -
| Stock options |  |  | - |  | 1 |  |  | - |  |  | - |  | 2 |  |  | -
| Restricted stock units |  |  | - |  | 3 |  |  | (0.01) |  |  | - |  | 3 |  |  | -
DILUTED EARNINGS PER SHARE |  | $ | 351 |  | 785 |  | $ | 0.44 |  | $ | 237 |  | 792 |  | $ | 0.30

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