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Share Based Payment Arrangements, Target Incentive Range

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Share-based Payment Arrangements, Number of Performance Metrics

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Share-based Payment Arrangements, Payout Percent

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Share-based Payment Arrangements, Vesting Period

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Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life Of Unvested Other Equity Instruments

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

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The amount of expense from share-based payment transactions with employees. [Refer: Expense from share-based payment transactions]

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
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The amount of liabilities arising from share-based payment transactions. Share-based payment transactions are transactions in which the entity: (a) receives goods or services from the supplier of those goods or services (including an employee) in a share-based payment arrangement; or (b) incurs an obligation to settle the transaction with the supplier in a share-based payment arrangement when another group entity receives those goods or services. [Refer: Share-based payment arrangements [member]]

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
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Equity-based compensation - Additional information (Details) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2022 USD ($) metric	Dec. 31, 2021 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2020 USD ($)
Disclosure of terms and conditions of share-based payment arrangement [line items]
Equity-based compensation expense	$ 152	$ 151	$ 113
Accrued equity-based payments	$ 12	$ 14
Remaining weighted-average vesting period	1 year 2 months 12 days
Long-term Incentive Plan
Disclosure of terms and conditions of share-based payment arrangement [line items]
Vesting period	3 years
Number of metrics \| metric	4
Swiss Employee Share Ownership Plan and Other Share Savings Plans
Disclosure of terms and conditions of share-based payment arrangement [line items]
Holding period	3 years
Minimum \| Long-term Incentive Plan
Disclosure of terms and conditions of share-based payment arrangement [line items]
Target incentive percentage	35.00%
Payout percent	0.00%
Maximum \| Long-term Incentive Plan
Disclosure of terms and conditions of share-based payment arrangement [line items]
Target incentive percentage	430.00%
Payout percent	200.00%