diff --git a/clang/lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp b/clang/lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp
--- a/clang/lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp
@@ -454,6 +454,8 @@
   CodeGenOpts.XRayAlwaysEmitTypedEvents = LangOpts.XRayAlwaysEmitTypedEvents;
   CodeGenOpts.DisableFree = FrontendOpts.DisableFree;
   FrontendOpts.GenerateGlobalModuleIndex = FrontendOpts.UseGlobalModuleIndex;
+  if (FrontendOpts.ShowStats)
+    CodeGenOpts.ClearASTBeforeBackend = false;
   LangOpts.SanitizeCoverage = CodeGenOpts.hasSanitizeCoverage();
   LangOpts.ForceEmitVTables = CodeGenOpts.ForceEmitVTables;
   LangOpts.SpeculativeLoadHardening = CodeGenOpts.SpeculativeLoadHardening;
diff --git a/clang/test/Misc/clear-ast-before-backend.c b/clang/test/Misc/clear-ast-before-backend.c
--- a/clang/test/Misc/clear-ast-before-backend.c
+++ b/clang/test/Misc/clear-ast-before-backend.c
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 // RUN: %clang_cc1 -clear-ast-before-backend %s -emit-obj -o /dev/null -O1
+// RUN: %clang_cc1 -clear-ast-before-backend %s -emit-obj -o /dev/null -print-stats
 
 void f() {}