diff --git a/api/neteq/neteq.h b/api/neteq/neteq.h
index 5300c5601e..43e0e09784 100644
--- a/api/neteq/neteq.h
+++ b/api/neteq/neteq.h
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ struct NetEqLifetimeStatistics {
   uint64_t packets_discarded = 0;
   // Below stats are not part of the spec.
   uint64_t delayed_packet_outage_samples = 0;
+  uint64_t delayed_packet_outage_events = 0;
   // This is sum of relative packet arrival delays of received packets so far.
   // Since end-to-end delay of a packet is difficult to measure and is not
   // necessarily useful for measuring jitter buffer performance, we report a
diff --git a/modules/audio_coding/neteq/statistics_calculator.cc b/modules/audio_coding/neteq/statistics_calculator.cc
index 52d3fa90f1..70cfc2b3a8 100644
--- a/modules/audio_coding/neteq/statistics_calculator.cc
+++ b/modules/audio_coding/neteq/statistics_calculator.cc
@@ -300,6 +300,7 @@ void StatisticsCalculator::LogDelayedPacketOutageEvent(int num_samples,
                        100 /* bucket count */);
   delayed_packet_outage_counter_.RegisterSample();
   lifetime_stats_.delayed_packet_outage_samples += num_samples;
+  ++lifetime_stats_.delayed_packet_outage_events;
 }
 
 void StatisticsCalculator::StoreWaitingTime(int waiting_time_ms) {
diff --git a/modules/audio_coding/neteq/tools/neteq_stats_plotter.cc b/modules/audio_coding/neteq/tools/neteq_stats_plotter.cc
index 162a4c9300..47bcd314bc 100644
--- a/modules/audio_coding/neteq/tools/neteq_stats_plotter.cc
+++ b/modules/audio_coding/neteq/tools/neteq_stats_plotter.cc
@@ -90,6 +90,8 @@ void NetEqStatsPlotter::SimulationEnded(int64_t simulation_time_ms) {
            lifetime_stats.concealment_events);
     printf("  delayed_packet_outage_samples: %" PRIu64 "\n",
            lifetime_stats.delayed_packet_outage_samples);
+    printf("  delayed_packet_outage_events: %" PRIu64 "\n",
+           lifetime_stats.delayed_packet_outage_events);
     printf("  num_interruptions: %d\n", lifetime_stats.interruption_count);
     printf("  sum_interruption_length_ms: %d ms\n",
            lifetime_stats.total_interruption_duration_ms);