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It is well documented that economic growth has little to no relationship with long-term country returns. 

But if GDP doesn’t drive long-term equity returns, then what does? To find out, we break down equity total returns of 33 countries from 1997 to 2022 into seven components: Nominal GDP growth, corporate profits as a share of GDP, composition effects, net buybacks, multiple expansion, dividend return, and currency return.