Washington: US President Barack Obama said that the US economy is looking up and underlined America's leadership role around the world, in his year-end conference here Friday.

"As a country, we have every right to be proud of what we've accomplished -- more jobs, more people insured, a growing economy, shrinking deficits, bustling industry, booming energy -- pick any metric that you want; America's resurgence is real. We are better off," Obama said, according to a CNN report.