Read President Obama's Happy New Year Message to Americans

President Obama has ushered in the New Year by celebrating his achievements from 2015 and looking ahead as his final year in the White House begins.

Obama took to Facebook to wish Americans a happy New Year and said there was plenty for him to be 'grateful for' from the past year.

'Businesses that continued an all-time record streak of job creation; a health care system that covers more than 90 percent of us for the first time,' he began in his list.

'A country where all our marriages are equal under the law for the first time; a world united around a prosperous, low-carbon future for the first time.'

The president celebrated some of the achievements from the last year, including marriage equality and the Paris Agreement tackling climate change, and looked ahead to his last year in the White House


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But Obama revealed it was the very citizens he serves that he was most grateful for, and the fact that he was their president.

'It's your hard work, determination, and fundamental decency that led us forward through 2015, and that will keep leading us forward in 2016,' he wrote.

' Because of you, as long as I've had the privilege to serve in this office, I've never been more optimistic for a year ahead.'

Obama concluded his message by revealing that his resolution was to use 'every day' he has left in office to 'keep making the promise of this country a reality for all of us'.