STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION (Assumptions Used) (Details) - Performance-Based RSUs - $ / shares	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2020	Sep. 30, 2019
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award
Fair value per stock award	$ 94.98	$ 134.97
Grant date stock price	$ 83.93	$ 104.51
Aptar's stock price expected volatility	23.80%	16.50%
Expected average volatility of peer companies	48.50%	31.90%
Correlation assumption	63.50%	37.40%
Risk-free interest rate	0.31%	2.19%
Dividend yield assumption	1.72%	1.30%

The assumed measure of the percentage of correlation during the period.

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The estimated measure of the percentage by which a peer company's share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period.

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Weighted average fair value of stock awards, other than options, during the period.

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Weighted average grant date stock price of awards other than options.

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The estimated dividend rate (a percentage of the share price) to be paid (expected dividends) to holders of the underlying shares over the option's term.

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The estimated measure of the percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period.

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The risk-free interest rate assumption that is used in valuing an option on its own shares.

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

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