Another year has passed and we are the same, again the goat to the mountainI mean to the Castellana.
Our homeland, our country, our nation, our State is, as we can see, very diverse even in its name, it is diverse in territories, languages, songs, regional costumes and typical foods, and it is also very diverse in professions, but it seems that those who know about this They have found a profession that represents us allthose who beat themselves up in the gyms doing martial arts, those who lose their eyes in the library and those who cry out in the soccer stadiums every other Sunday, and that profession is that of the military.
Are the military the best representation of the country? Is it necessary that the day we celebrate our nation do so with a military parade?
Today I felt modern and I asked Artificial Intelligence how many Spaniards practice certain professions and according to what it tells me, in Spain there are some 146,000 military personnelof which about 120,000 are on active duty, a number very similar to that of the car repair workerswhich are encrypted between 140.000 y 151.000. Can anyone imagine that the national holiday was celebrated with a parade of mechanics with their tools along Paseo de la Castellana?
According to the National Institute of Statistics in 2024 there were in Spain 1,008,764 healthcare professionals. In the National Health System, that is, Public Health has 763,355 professionals (doctors, nurses and others).
According to the estimates of the Ministry of Social Rightsthe number of workers in the long-term care sector and dependence in Spain it is located close to 500.000 personas.
Regarding our education, in the 2023-2024 academic year, the number of teachers of all educational levels in Spain is also close to 1.000.000 of teachers, almost 800,000 in non-university education, of them 570,000 in public centers. In the universities and research centers there would be about 142,000, more or less the same as the military, but they will not deny that they should be a little more read and studied.
Happy National Holiday to all those who strive every day to have a better, more prosperous, fairer and freer country!
The number of workers in the sector transportation and storage in Spain it is located between 1.1 and 1.26 million people.
Those who feed us, the primary sector, that is farmers, ranchersfishermen and the aquaculture sector, according to the Active Population Survey, at the end of the 4th quarter of 2024, were 736.900 citizens, of which 93% work in agriculture or livestock.
According to the latest data in the Active Population Survey (EPA) number of construction workers in the 2nd quarter of 2025 are 1.524.500 and depending on the sector, there is a lack of workers.
How many are there who take care of our safety? Well, according to Artificial Intelligence data, we have some 75,000 national police, 80,000 civil guardsjust over 35,000 regional police officers and more than 65,000 local police officersthe different police forces suman 255.000 effective.
In view of these numbers, it does not seem that the military is the ones who represent us all, but of course the Head of State is the Captain General of the armiesa job he got in accelerated courses, and He is not the general mechanic of Spainneither the maximum Chief of the health workers, nor of the teachers, is not the maximum farmer nor the boss of the ranchers.
Happy Mother’s Day National Holiday to all those who strive every day to have a better, more prosperous, fairer and freer country!
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Angel Diez de Miguel is a partner of infoLibre.
