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Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio  
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Risk/Return [Heading] rr_RiskReturnHeading DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio
Objective [Heading] rr_ObjectiveHeading Investment Objective
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The investment objective of the DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio (the “World ex U.S. Government Portfolio” or the “Portfolio”) is to seek to maximize total returns from the universe of debt securities in which the Portfolio invests. Total return is comprised of income and capital appreciation.
Expense [Heading] rr_ExpenseHeading Fees and Expenses of the Portfolio
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This table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy, hold or sell shares of the Portfolio. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and Example below.
Shareholder Fees Caption [Text] rr_ShareholderFeesCaption Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
Operating Expenses Caption [Text] rr_OperatingExpensesCaption Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Portfolio Turnover [Heading] rr_PortfolioTurnoverHeading PORTFOLIO TURNOVER
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A fund generally pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the Example, affect the Portfolio’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Portfolio's portfolio turnover rate was 44% of the average value of its investment portfolio.
Portfolio Turnover, Rate rr_PortfolioTurnoverRate 44.00%
Expense Example [Heading] rr_ExpenseExampleHeading EXAMPLE
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This Example is meant to help you compare the cost of investing in the Portfolio with the cost of investing in other funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Portfolio for the time periods indicated. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Portfolio’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs whether you redeem or hold your shares would be:

Strategy [Heading] rr_StrategyHeading Principal Investment Strategies
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The World ex U.S. Government Portfolio seeks its investment objective by primarily investing in a universe of non-U.S. dollar-denominated obligations issued or guaranteed by foreign and U.S. government issuers, their agencies and instrumentalities and supranational organizations having investment grade credit ratings at the time of purchase (e.g., rated AAA to BBB- by S&P Global Ratings (“S&P”) or Fitch Ratings Ltd. (“Fitch”) or Aaa to Baa3 by Moody’s Investor’s Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”)). The Portfolio also may invest in U.S. dollar-denominated obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government, its agencies and instrumentalities to manage cash or to maintain liquidity. The Advisor expects that the Portfolio will primarily invest in the obligations of issuers that are in developed countries.

The Portfolio intends to invest its assets to gain exposure to at least three different countries, excluding the United States. The Advisor selects the Portfolio’s foreign country and currency compositions based on an evaluation of various factors, including, but not limited to, relative interest rates and exchange rates. As a non-fundamental policy, under normal circumstances, the Portfolio will invest at least 80% of its net assets in fixed income securities issued or guaranteed by foreign governments or their authorities, agencies, instrumentalities or political subdivisions.

Generally, the World ex U.S. Government Portfolio will purchase fixed income securities that mature between five and fifteen years from the date of settlement. Under normal circumstances, the Portfolio will generally maintain a weighted average duration of no more than one quarter year greater than, and no less than one year below, the weighted average duration of the FTSE Non-USD World Government Bond Index, Currency-Hedged in USD Terms, which was approximately 7.75 years as of December 31, 2024. From time to time, the Portfolio may deviate from this duration range when the Advisor determines it to be appropriate under the circumstances. Duration is a measure of the sensitivity of a security’s price to changes in interest rates. The longer a security’s duration, the more sensitive it will be to changes in interest rates.

Because many of the World ex U.S. Government Portfolio’s investments may be denominated in foreign currencies, the Portfolio may also enter into foreign currency forward contracts to attempt to protect against uncertainty in the level of future foreign currency rates, to hedge against fluctuations in currency exchange rates or to transfer balances from one currency to another. The Portfolio may purchase or sell futures contracts and options on futures contracts, to hedge its currency exposure or to hedge its interest rate exposure or for non-hedging purposes, such as a substitute for direct investment or to increase or decrease market exposure based on actual or expected cash inflows to or outflows from the Portfolio. The Portfolio may also invest in money market funds.

The World ex U.S. Government Portfolio is “non-diversified,” which means that the Portfolio may invest its assets in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified fund.

The World ex U.S. Government Portfolio may lend its portfolio securities to generate additional income.
Risk [Heading] rr_RiskHeading Principal Risks
Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading] rr_BarChartAndPerformanceTableHeading Performance
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The bar chart and table immediately following illustrate the variability of the Portfolio’s returns and are meant to provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Portfolio. The bar chart shows the changes in the Portfolio’s performance from year to year. The table illustrates how annualized returns for certain periods, both before and after taxes, compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. The table also includes the performance of an additional index with a similar investment universe as the Portfolio. The Portfolio’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not an indication of future results. Updated performance information for the Portfolio can be obtained by visiting https://www.dimensional.com/us-en/funds.

The after-tax returns presented in the table for the Portfolio are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown in the table. In addition, the after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold shares of the Portfolio through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text] rr_PerformanceInformationIllustratesVariabilityOfReturns The bar chart and table immediately following illustrate the variability of the Portfolio’s returns and are meant to provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Portfolio. The bar chart shows the changes in the Portfolio’s performance from year to year.
Performance Availability Website Address [Text] rr_PerformanceAvailabilityWebSiteAddress https://www.dimensional.com/us-en/funds
Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text] rr_PerformancePastDoesNotIndicateFuture The Portfolio’s past performance (before and after taxes) is not an indication of future results.
Bar Chart [Heading] rr_BarChartHeading DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio Institutional Class Shares —Total Returns
Performance Table Heading rr_PerformanceTableHeading Annualized Returns (%)
Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate rr_PerformanceTableUsesHighestFederalRate The after-tax returns presented in the table for the Portfolio are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes.
Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred rr_PerformanceTableNotRelevantToTaxDeferred In addition, the after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold shares of the Portfolio through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | Principal Risks  
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Principal Risks

Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money. An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The following is a description of principal risks of investing in the Portfolio.
Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | Risk Lose Money [Member]  
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Risk [Text Block] rr_RiskTextBlock Because the value of your investment in the Portfolio will fluctuate, there is the risk that you will lose money.
Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | Risk Not Insured [Member]  
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Risk [Text Block] rr_RiskTextBlock An investment in the Portfolio is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.
Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | Market Risk  
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Market Risk: Even a long-term investment approach cannot guarantee a profit. Economic, market, political, and issuer-specific conditions and events will cause the value of securities, and a fund that owns them, to rise or fall.
Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk  
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Foreign Securities and Currencies Risk: Foreign securities prices may decline or fluctuate because of: (a) economic or political actions of foreign governments, and/or (b) less regulated or liquid securities markets. Investors holding these securities may also be exposed to foreign currency risk (the possibility that foreign currency will fluctuate in value against the U.S. dollar or that a foreign government will convert, or be forced to convert, its currency to another currency, changing its value against the U.S. dollar). The Portfolio hedges foreign currency risk.

Foreign issuers may not be subject to uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards and there may be less reliable and publicly available financial and other information about such issuers, as compared to U.S. issuers. A fund may have greater difficulty voting proxies, exercising shareholder rights, securing dividends and/or interest and obtaining information regarding corporate actions on a timely basis, pursuing legal remedies, and obtaining judgments with respect to foreign investments in foreign courts than with respect to domestic issuers in U.S. courts.
Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | Geographic Focus Risk  
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Geographic Focus Risk: If a fund focuses its investments in securities of issuers located in a particular country or region, the fund may be subjected, to a greater extent than if its investments were less focused, to the risks of volatile economic cycles and/or conditions and developments that may be particular to that country or region, such as: adverse securities markets; adverse exchange rates; adverse social, political, regulatory, economic, business, environmental or other developments; or natural disasters.
Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | Foreign Government Debt Risk  
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Foreign Government Debt Risk: The risk that: (a) the governmental entity that controls the repayment of government debt may not be willing or able to repay the principal and/or to pay the interest when it becomes due, due to factors such as political considerations, the relative size of the governmental entity’s debt position in relation to the economy, cash flow problems, insufficient foreign currency reserves, the failure to put in place economic reforms required by the International Monetary Fund or other multilateral agencies, and/or other national economic factors; (b) governments may default on their debt securities, which may require holders of such securities to participate in debt rescheduling; and (c) there is no legal or bankruptcy process by which defaulted government debt may be collected in whole or in part.
Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | Interest Rate Risk  
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Interest Rate Risk: Fixed income securities are subject to interest rate risk because the prices of fixed income securities tend to move in the opposite direction of interest rates. When interest rates rise, fixed income security prices fall. During periods of very low or negative interest rates, a fund may be subject to a greater risk of rising interest rates. When interest rates fall, fixed income security prices rise. In general, fixed income securities with longer maturities are more sensitive to changes in interest rates.
Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | Risk Nondiversified Status [Member]  
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Non-Diversification Risk: The risk that a fund may be more volatile than a diversified fund because a fund invests its assets in a smaller number of issuers. The gains or losses on a single security, therefore, may have a greater impact on a fund’s net asset value.
Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | Credit Risk  
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Credit Risk: Credit risk is the risk that the issuer of a security may be unable to make interest payments and/or repay principal when due. A downgrade to an issuer’s credit rating or a perceived change in an issuer’s financial strength may affect a security’s value, and thus, impact the performance of a fund holding such securities. Government agency obligations have different levels of credit support and, therefore, different degrees of credit risk. Securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities of the U.S. Government that are supported by the full faith and credit of the United States, such as the Federal Housing Administration and Ginnie Mae, present little credit risk. Other securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities sponsored by the U.S. Government, that are supported only by the issuer’s right to borrow from the U.S. Treasury, subject to certain limitations, and securities issued by agencies and instrumentalities sponsored by the U.S. Government that are sponsored by the credit of the issuing agencies, such as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, are subject to a greater degree of credit risk. U.S. government agency securities issued or guaranteed by the credit of the agency may still involve a risk of non-payment of principal and/or interest.
Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | Income Risk  
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Income Risk: Income risk is the risk that falling interest rates will cause a fund’s income to decline because, among other reasons, the proceeds from maturing short-term securities in its portfolio may be reinvested in lower-yielding securities.
Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | Call Risk  
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Call Risk: Call risk is the risk that during periods of falling interest rates, an issuer will call or repay a higher-yielding fixed income security before its maturity date, forcing a fund to reinvest in fixed income securities with lower interest rates than the original obligations.
Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | Derivatives Risk  
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Derivatives Risk: Derivatives are instruments, such as futures contracts, and options thereon, and foreign currency forward contracts, whose value is derived from that of other assets, rates or indices. Derivatives can be used for hedging (attempting to reduce risk by offsetting one investment position with another) or non-hedging purposes. Hedging with derivatives may increase expenses, and there is no guarantee that a hedging strategy will work. While hedging can reduce or eliminate losses, it can also reduce or eliminate gains or cause losses if the market moves in a manner different from that anticipated by a fund or if the cost of the derivative outweighs the benefit of the hedge. In regard to currency hedging, it is generally not possible to precisely match the foreign currency exposure of such foreign currency forward contracts to the value of the securities involved due to fluctuations in the market values of such securities and cash flows into and out of a fund between the date a foreign currency forward contract is entered into and the date it expires. The use of derivatives for non-hedging purposes may be considered to carry more risk than other types of investments. When a fund uses derivatives, the fund will be directly exposed to the risks of those derivatives. Derivative instruments are subject to a number of risks including counterparty, settlement, liquidity, interest rate, market, credit and management risks, as well as the risk of improper valuation. Changes in the value of a derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index, and a fund could lose more than the principal amount invested.

Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | Liquidity Risk  
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Liquidity Risk: Liquidity risk exists when particular portfolio investments are difficult to purchase or sell. To the extent that a fund holds illiquid investments, the fund’s performance may be reduced due to an inability to sell the investments at opportune prices or times. Liquid portfolio investments may become illiquid or less liquid after

purchase by a fund due to low trading volume, adverse investor perceptions and/or other market developments. Liquidity risk includes the risk that a fund will experience significant net redemptions at a time when it cannot find willing buyers for its portfolio securities or can only sell its portfolio securities at a material loss or at increased costs. Liquidity risk can be more pronounced in periods of market turmoil or in situations where ownership of shares of a fund are concentrated in one or a few investors.

Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | Securities Lending Risk  
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Securities Lending Risk: Securities lending involves the risk that the borrower may fail to return the securities in a timely manner or at all. As a result, a fund may lose money and there may be a delay in recovering the loaned securities. A fund could also lose money if it does not recover the securities and/or the value of the collateral falls, including the value of investments made with cash collateral. Securities lending also may have certain adverse tax consequences.
Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | Operational Risk  
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Operational Risk: Operational risks include human error, changes in personnel, system changes, faults in communication, and failures in systems, technology, or processes. Various operational events or circumstances are outside a fund’s or its advisor’s control, including instances at third parties. A fund and its advisor seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, measures that seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures may not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.
Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | Cyber Security Risk  
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Cyber Security Risk: A fund and its service providers’ use of internet, technology and information systems may expose the fund to potential risks linked to cyber security breaches of those technological or information systems. Cyber security breaches, amongst other things, could allow an unauthorized party to gain access to proprietary information, customer data, or fund assets, or cause the fund and/or its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational functionality.
Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | FTSE Non-USD World Government Bond Index (hedged to USD)  
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Index No Deduction for Fees, Expenses, Taxes [Text] rr_IndexNoDeductionForFeesExpensesTaxes (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes on sales)
Label rr_AverageAnnualReturnLabel FTSE Non-USD World Government Bond Index (hedged to USD)
Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | FTSE Non-USD World Government Bond Index (hedged to USD)  
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1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 3.61%
5 Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 (0.12%)
10 Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10 1.93%
Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | Bloomberg Global Aggregate ex-USD Bond Index (hedged to USD)1  
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Index No Deduction for Fees, Expenses, Taxes [Text] rr_IndexNoDeductionForFeesExpensesTaxes (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes on sales)
Label rr_AverageAnnualReturnLabel Bloomberg Global Aggregate ex-USD Bond Index (hedged to USD)1 [1]
Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | Bloomberg Global Aggregate ex-USD Bond Index (hedged to USD)1  
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1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 4.97%
5 Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 1.01%
10 Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10 2.43%
Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | Institutional Class  
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Management Fee rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.16%
Other Expenses rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.04%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses rr_ExpensesOverAssets 0.20%
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 $ 20
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 64
5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear05 113
10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear10 255
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear01 20
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear03 64
5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear05 113
10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear10 $ 255
Annual Return 2015 rr_AnnualReturn2015 0.85%
Annual Return 2016 rr_AnnualReturn2016 5.55%
Annual Return 2017 rr_AnnualReturn2017 3.18%
Annual Return 2018 rr_AnnualReturn2018 3.28%
Annual Return 2019 rr_AnnualReturn2019 8.52%
Annual Return 2020 rr_AnnualReturn2020 6.35%
Annual Return 2021 rr_AnnualReturn2021 (4.63%)
Annual Return 2022 rr_AnnualReturn2022 (18.94%)
Annual Return 2023 rr_AnnualReturn2023 9.99%
Annual Return 2024 rr_AnnualReturn2024 1.59%
Label rr_HighestQuarterlyReturnLabel Highest Quarter
Highest Quarterly Return, Date rr_BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturnDate Dec. 31, 2023
Highest Quarterly Return rr_BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturn 8.44%
Label rr_LowestQuarterlyReturnLabel Lowest Quarter
Lowest Quarterly Return, Date rr_BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturnDate Jun. 30, 2022
Lowest Quarterly Return rr_BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturn (7.40%)
Label rr_AverageAnnualReturnLabel Return Before Taxes
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 1.59%
5 Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 (1.68%)
10 Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10 1.24%
Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | Institutional Class | After Taxes on Distributions  
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Label rr_AverageAnnualReturnLabel Return After Taxes on Distributions
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 0.37%
5 Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 (2.51%)
10 Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10 (0.07%)
Prospectus Summary | DFA World ex U.S. Government Fixed Income Portfolio | Institutional Class | After Taxes on Distributions and Sales  
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Label rr_AverageAnnualReturnLabel Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Portfolio Shares
1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 0.95%
5 Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 (1.57%)
10 Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear10 0.43%
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The Portfolio incorporated this broad-based securities market index to reflect the overall applicable securities market of the Portfolio.