diff --git a/datafusion/core/src/physical_optimizer/aggregate_statistics.rs b/datafusion/core/src/physical_optimizer/aggregate_statistics.rs
index 396e66972f30..52fd60aa94bd 100644
--- a/datafusion/core/src/physical_optimizer/aggregate_statistics.rs
+++ b/datafusion/core/src/physical_optimizer/aggregate_statistics.rs
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ use crate::error::Result;
 pub struct AggregateStatistics {}
 
 /// The name of the column corresponding to [`COUNT_STAR_EXPANSION`]
-const COUNT_STAR_NAME: &str = "COUNT(UInt8(1))";
+const COUNT_STAR_NAME: &str = "COUNT(*)";
 
 impl AggregateStatistics {
     #[allow(missing_docs)]
diff --git a/datafusion/core/tests/custom_sources.rs b/datafusion/core/tests/custom_sources.rs
index 3886ad3c42c0..377c2ab2ab24 100644
--- a/datafusion/core/tests/custom_sources.rs
+++ b/datafusion/core/tests/custom_sources.rs
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ async fn optimizers_catch_all_statistics() {
 
     let expected = RecordBatch::try_new(
         Arc::new(Schema::new(vec![
-            Field::new("COUNT(UInt8(1))", DataType::Int64, false),
+            Field::new("COUNT(*)", DataType::Int64, false),
             Field::new("MIN(test.c1)", DataType::Int32, false),
             Field::new("MAX(test.c1)", DataType::Int32, false),
         ])),
diff --git a/datafusion/core/tests/sql/explain_analyze.rs b/datafusion/core/tests/sql/explain_analyze.rs
index 2b708df4f348..46f94c348735 100644
--- a/datafusion/core/tests/sql/explain_analyze.rs
+++ b/datafusion/core/tests/sql/explain_analyze.rs
@@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ async fn explain_physical_plan_only() {
 
     let expected = vec![vec![
         "physical_plan",
-        "ProjectionExec: expr=[2 as COUNT(UInt8(1))]\
+        "ProjectionExec: expr=[2 as COUNT(*)]\
         \n  EmptyExec: produce_one_row=true\
         \n",
     ]];
diff --git a/datafusion/sqllogictest/test_files/explain.slt b/datafusion/sqllogictest/test_files/explain.slt
index 27ab8671e939..23055cd978ff 100644
--- a/datafusion/sqllogictest/test_files/explain.slt
+++ b/datafusion/sqllogictest/test_files/explain.slt
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ query TT
 EXPLAIN select count(*) from (values ('a', 1, 100), ('a', 2, 150)) as t (c1,c2,c3)
 ----
 physical_plan
-ProjectionExec: expr=[2 as COUNT(UInt8(1))]
+ProjectionExec: expr=[2 as COUNT(*)]
 --EmptyExec: produce_one_row=true
 
 statement ok