diff --git a/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/aws/glue.py b/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/aws/glue.py
index a7171cfe42caf..93768a1aa7e73 100644
--- a/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/aws/glue.py
+++ b/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/aws/glue.py
@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ def _create_profile_mcp(
             dataset_profile.rowCount = int(
                 float(table_stats[self.source_config.profiling.row_count])
             )
-        if self.source_config.profiling.row_count in table_stats:
+        if self.source_config.profiling.column_count in table_stats:
             dataset_profile.columnCount = int(
                 float(table_stats[self.source_config.profiling.column_count])
             )