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Amount due from customers or clients, within one year of the balance sheet date (or the normal operating cycle, whichever is longer), for goods or services (including trade receivables) that have been delivered or sold in the normal course of business, reduced to the estimated net realizable fair value by an allowance established by the entity of the amount it deems uncertain of collection.

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Amount, after allowance for credit loss, of right to consideration in exchange for good or service transferred to customer when right is conditioned on something other than passage of time, classified as current.

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Amount of decrease in right to consideration in exchange for good or service transferred to customer when right is conditioned on something other than passage of time from transfer to receivable due to right to consideration becoming unconditional.

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Amount of obligation to transfer good or service to customer for which consideration has been received or is receivable, classified as current.

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Amount of obligation to transfer good or service to customer for which consideration has been received or is receivable, classified as noncurrent.

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Amount of revenue recognized that was previously included in balance of obligation to transfer good or service to customer for which consideration from customer has been received or is due.

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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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Amount of transaction price allocated to performance obligation that has not been recognized as revenue.

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Period in which remaining performance obligation is expected to be recognized as revenue, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Amount of revenue recognized from goods sold, services rendered, insurance premiums, or other activities that constitute an earning process. Includes, but is not limited to, investment and interest income before deduction of interest expense when recognized as a component of revenue, and sales and trading gain (loss).

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REVENUE (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
REVENUE (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	Dec. 31, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016	Jan. 01, 2018
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenues	$ 49,604
Revenue, Remaining Performance Obligation, Expected Timing of Satisfaction, Period	22 years
Contract with Customer, Liability, Revenue Recognized	$ 205
Contract with Customer, Asset, Reclassified to Receivable	12
Accounts and notes receivable - Trade	5,646	$ 5,386
Contract assets - current	19	0
Contract assets - noncurrent	1	0
Contract liabilities - current	134	116
Contract liabilities - noncurrent	$ 1,318	$ 1,365
Adjustments
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Accounts and notes receivable - Trade				$ 0
Contract assets - current				1
Contract assets - noncurrent				0
Contract liabilities - current				21
Contract liabilities - noncurrent				$ 47
Product
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenue, Percentage from Products and Service Transferred to Customers	99.00%	98.00%	99.00%
Licensing of Technology
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenue, Remaining Performance Obligation, Amount	$ 407
Packaging & Specialty Plastics [Member] [Domain]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenues	24,195
Corporate Segment [Member]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenues	285
Performance Materials & Coatings [Member]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenues	9,677
Industrial Intermediates & Infrastructure [Member]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenues	15,447
Coatings and Performance Monomers [Member] \| Performance Materials & Coatings [Member]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenues	3,979
Consumer Solutions [Member] \| Performance Materials & Coatings [Member]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenues	5,698
Industrial Solutions [Member] \| Industrial Intermediates & Infrastructure [Member]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenues	4,812
Polyurethanes & CAV [Member] \| Industrial Intermediates & Infrastructure [Member]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenues	10,615
Other [Member] \| Industrial Intermediates & Infrastructure [Member]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenues	20
Hydrocarbons & Energy [Member] \| Packaging & Specialty Plastics [Member] [Domain]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenues	7,587
Packaging and Specialty Plastics [Member] \| Packaging & Specialty Plastics [Member] [Domain]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenues	16,608
U.S.& Canada [Member]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenues	17,809
Europe, Middle East, Africa and India [Domain]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenues	17,406
Asia Pacific [Member]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenues	9,404
Latin America [Member]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Revenues	4,985
The Dow Chemical Company [Domain]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Accounts and notes receivable - Trade	$ 5,646	$ 5,386