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Financial Instruments Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring Basis - Footnotes (Detail) (USD $)
In Millions, unless otherwise specified
Dec. 31, 2014
Dec. 31, 2013
Estimate of Fair Value Measurement [Member]    
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]    
Fair value of long-term debt $ 36,600us-gaap_LongTermDebtFairValue
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$ 35,100us-gaap_LongTermDebtFairValue
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Designated as Hedging Instrument [Member] | Foreign Currency Long Term Debt [Member] | Estimate of Fair Value Measurement [Member]    
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]    
Fair value of long-term debt 560us-gaap_LongTermDebtFairValue
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Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring [Member] | Not Designated as Hedging Instrument [Member] | Foreign currency forward-exchange contracts [Member]    
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]    
Instruments used as offsets (assets) 159us-gaap_DerivativeFairValueOfDerivativeAsset
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Instruments used as offsets (liabilities) 54us-gaap_DerivativeFairValueOfDerivativeLiability
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77us-gaap_DerivativeFairValueOfDerivativeLiability
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Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring [Member] | Not Designated as Hedging Instrument [Member] | Interest Rate Swap [Member]    
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]    
Instruments used as offsets (assets)   38us-gaap_DerivativeFairValueOfDerivativeAsset
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Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring [Member] | Not Designated as Hedging Instrument [Member] | Currency Swap [Member]    
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]    
Instruments used as offsets (assets)   30us-gaap_DerivativeFairValueOfDerivativeAsset
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Instruments used as offsets (liabilities) $ 121us-gaap_DerivativeFairValueOfDerivativeLiability
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$ 76us-gaap_DerivativeFairValueOfDerivativeLiability
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Maximum [Member] | Fair Value, Measurements, Recurring [Member]    
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items]    
Percentage of financial assets and liabilities measured at fair value inputs Level 1 and Level 3 inputs 1.00%pfe_FinancialAssetsAndLiabilitiesMeasuredAtFairValuePercentage
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