diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c b/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c
index 5db60cd5d9..aa3df37324 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/checkpointer.c
@@ -708,6 +708,11 @@ CheckpointWriteDelay(int flags, double progress)
 
 		CheckArchiveTimeout();
 
+		/*
+		 * Report interim activity statistics to the stats collector.
+		 */
+		pgstat_send_bgwriter();
+
 		/*
 		 * This sleep used to be connected to bgwriter_delay, typically 200ms.
 		 * That resulted in more frequent wakeups if not much work to do.