Barack Obama has been president of the United States for eight years, and now, the country's first African American president will leave the US in the hands of Republican Donald Trump.
Obama began his first term in 2009, the second began in 2013, during those years the Democrat had succeded and failed in issues of economy, human rights, immigration and health, which will have an impact in the world even after he leaves the White House.
Here are some significant figures from his government described by BBC:
1. Unemployment
The unemployment rate in the United States is 4.9%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which belongs to the government. It is lower than the monthly average of 5.5% unemployment that has existed since 1948 in the country. It is also 2.9% points below the level it had when Obama took office in 2009.
2. More than 10 million new jobs
There are 10.9 million new jobs created in the United States since Obama took office. As of October 2016, there were 144,952 million jobs in the United States.
3. Health
According to surveys by the National Center for Health Statistics, 16.5 million is reduced quantity of the number of people without health insurance in the United States between 2008 and the first quarter of 2016. That decrease is attributed to a large extent to "Obamacare," the health program that prompted the president and came into force in 2016.
4. About two million fewer immigrants
There have been 2.5 million immigrants deported during the Obama administration between 2009 and 2015, and according to data from the Department of Homeland Security, these figures show that no other president in the US has expelled as many people as the Democrat, who has been called by leaders of the Latino community as "Deportador en jefe".
5. Public debt
The current amount of US public debt is $ 19.9 trillion, which rose 87% under the Obama administration. The US public debt exceeds 100% of the country's GDP, with the public and domestic institutions as major creditors, and China as the largest foreign holder.
