diff --git a/hmp.c b/hmp.c
index 8da5fd8760..b2a2b1f84e 100644
--- a/hmp.c
+++ b/hmp.c
@@ -236,6 +236,8 @@ void hmp_info_migrate(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict)
                        info->ram->page_size >> 10);
         monitor_printf(mon, "multifd bytes: %" PRIu64 " kbytes\n",
                        info->ram->multifd_bytes >> 10);
+        monitor_printf(mon, "pages-per-second: %" PRIu64 "\n",
+                       info->ram->pages_per_second);
 
         if (info->ram->dirty_pages_rate) {
             monitor_printf(mon, "dirty pages rate: %" PRIu64 " pages\n",
diff --git a/migration/migration.c b/migration/migration.c
index ded151b1bf..37e06b76dc 100644
--- a/migration/migration.c
+++ b/migration/migration.c
@@ -782,6 +782,7 @@ static void populate_ram_info(MigrationInfo *info, MigrationState *s)
     info->ram->postcopy_requests = ram_counters.postcopy_requests;
     info->ram->page_size = qemu_target_page_size();
     info->ram->multifd_bytes = ram_counters.multifd_bytes;
+    info->ram->pages_per_second = s->pages_per_second;
 
     if (migrate_use_xbzrle()) {
         info->has_xbzrle_cache = true;
@@ -1565,6 +1566,7 @@ void migrate_init(MigrationState *s)
     s->rp_state.from_dst_file = NULL;
     s->rp_state.error = false;
     s->mbps = 0.0;
+    s->pages_per_second = 0.0;
     s->downtime = 0;
     s->expected_downtime = 0;
     s->setup_time = 0;
@@ -2883,7 +2885,7 @@ static void migration_calculate_complete(MigrationState *s)
 static void migration_update_counters(MigrationState *s,
                                       int64_t current_time)
 {
-    uint64_t transferred, time_spent;
+    uint64_t transferred, transferred_pages, time_spent;
     uint64_t current_bytes; /* bytes transferred since the beginning */
     double bandwidth;
 
@@ -2900,6 +2902,11 @@ static void migration_update_counters(MigrationState *s,
     s->mbps = (((double) transferred * 8.0) /
                ((double) time_spent / 1000.0)) / 1000.0 / 1000.0;
 
+    transferred_pages = ram_get_total_transferred_pages() -
+                            s->iteration_initial_pages;
+    s->pages_per_second = (double) transferred_pages /
+                             (((double) time_spent / 1000.0));
+
     /*
      * if we haven't sent anything, we don't want to
      * recalculate. 10000 is a small enough number for our purposes
@@ -2912,6 +2919,7 @@ static void migration_update_counters(MigrationState *s,
 
     s->iteration_start_time = current_time;
     s->iteration_initial_bytes = current_bytes;
+    s->iteration_initial_pages = ram_get_total_transferred_pages();
 
     trace_migrate_transferred(transferred, time_spent,
                               bandwidth, s->threshold_size);
@@ -3316,6 +3324,7 @@ static void migration_instance_init(Object *obj)
 
     ms->state = MIGRATION_STATUS_NONE;
     ms->mbps = -1;
+    ms->pages_per_second = -1;
     qemu_sem_init(&ms->pause_sem, 0);
     qemu_mutex_init(&ms->error_mutex);
 
diff --git a/migration/migration.h b/migration/migration.h
index 02b7304610..dcd05d9f87 100644
--- a/migration/migration.h
+++ b/migration/migration.h
@@ -126,7 +126,13 @@ struct MigrationState
      */
     QemuSemaphore rate_limit_sem;
 
-    /* bytes already send at the beggining of current interation */
+    /* pages already send at the beginning of current iteration */
+    uint64_t iteration_initial_pages;
+
+    /* pages transferred per second */
+    double pages_per_second;
+
+    /* bytes already send at the beginning of current iteration */
     uint64_t iteration_initial_bytes;
     /* time at the start of current iteration */
     int64_t iteration_start_time;
@@ -271,6 +277,8 @@ bool migrate_use_block_incremental(void);
 int migrate_max_cpu_throttle(void);
 bool migrate_use_return_path(void);
 
+uint64_t ram_get_total_transferred_pages(void);
+
 bool migrate_use_compression(void);
 int migrate_compress_level(void);
 int migrate_compress_threads(void);
diff --git a/migration/ram.c b/migration/ram.c
index 43c2b442af..59191c1ed2 100644
--- a/migration/ram.c
+++ b/migration/ram.c
@@ -1601,6 +1601,12 @@ uint64_t ram_pagesize_summary(void)
     return summary;
 }
 
+uint64_t ram_get_total_transferred_pages(void)
+{
+    return  ram_counters.normal + ram_counters.duplicate +
+                compression_counters.pages + xbzrle_counters.pages;
+}
+
 static void migration_update_rates(RAMState *rs, int64_t end_time)
 {
     uint64_t page_count = rs->target_page_count - rs->target_page_count_prev;
diff --git a/qapi/migration.json b/qapi/migration.json
index 31b589ec26..7a795ecc16 100644
--- a/qapi/migration.json
+++ b/qapi/migration.json
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@
 #
 # @multifd-bytes: The number of bytes sent through multifd (since 3.0)
 #
+# @pages-per-second: the number of memory pages transferred per second
+#        (Since 4.0)
+#
 # Since: 0.14.0
 ##
 { 'struct': 'MigrationStats',
@@ -49,7 +52,7 @@
            'normal-bytes': 'int', 'dirty-pages-rate' : 'int',
            'mbps' : 'number', 'dirty-sync-count' : 'int',
            'postcopy-requests' : 'int', 'page-size' : 'int',
-           'multifd-bytes' : 'uint64' } }
+           'multifd-bytes' : 'uint64', 'pages-per-second' : 'uint64' } }
 
 ##
 # @XBZRLECacheStats: