Employee Benefits - Schedule of assumed health care cost trend rates (Details) - U.S. Plans - Pension	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2022	Dec. 31, 2021
Defined Benefit Plans and Other Postretirement Benefit Plans Table Text Block [Line Items]
Ultimate rate to which cost increase is assumed to decline	4.00%	4.00%
Before age 65
Defined Benefit Plans and Other Postretirement Benefit Plans Table Text Block [Line Items]
Following year	6.01%	5.45%
Year in which the ultimate trend rate is reached	2046	2046
Age 65 And Older
Defined Benefit Plans and Other Postretirement Benefit Plans Table Text Block [Line Items]
Following year	4.95%	4.98%
Year in which the ultimate trend rate is reached	2046	2046

Assumed rate, for next fiscal year, based on annual change in cost of health care cost benefits used to measure expected cost of benefits covered by defined benefit postretirement plan. Factors include, but are not limited to, estimate of health care inflation, change in health care utilization or delivery pattern, technological advances, and change in health status of participant. Excludes factors for change in composition of plan population by age and dependency status.

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