diff --git a/utils/datasets.py b/utils/datasets.py
index daaa8d24855e..7c74d2c01322 100755
--- a/utils/datasets.py
+++ b/utils/datasets.py
@@ -17,12 +17,13 @@
 import numpy as np
 import torch
 import torch.nn.functional as F
+import yaml
 from PIL import Image, ExifTags
 from torch.utils.data import Dataset
 from tqdm import tqdm
 
-from utils.general import check_requirements, xyxy2xywh, xywh2xyxy, xywhn2xyxy, xyn2xy, segment2box, segments2boxes, \
-    resample_segments, clean_str
+from utils.general import check_requirements, check_file, check_dataset, xyxy2xywh, xywh2xyxy, xywhn2xyxy, xyn2xy, \
+    segment2box, segments2boxes, resample_segments, clean_str
 from utils.torch_utils import torch_distributed_zero_first
 
 # Parameters
@@ -1083,3 +1084,34 @@ def verify_image_label(params):
         nc = 1
         logging.info(f'{prefix}WARNING: Ignoring corrupted image and/or label {im_file}: {e}')
         return [None] * 4 + [nm, nf, ne, nc]
+
+
+def dataset_stats(path='data/coco128.yaml', verbose=False):
+    """ Return dataset statistics dictionary with images and instances counts per split per class
+    Usage: from utils.datasets import *; dataset_stats('data/coco128.yaml')
+    Arguments
+        path:           Path to data.yaml
+        verbose:        Print stats dictionary
+    """
+    path = check_file(Path(path))
+    with open(path) as f:
+        data = yaml.safe_load(f)  # data dict
+    check_dataset(data)  # download dataset if missing
+
+    nc = data['nc']  # number of classes
+    stats = {'nc': nc, 'names': data['names']}  # statistics dictionary
+    for split in 'train', 'val', 'test':
+        if split not in data:
+            stats[split] = None  # i.e. no test set
+            continue
+        x = []
+        dataset = LoadImagesAndLabels(data[split], augment=False, rect=True)  # load dataset
+        for label in tqdm(dataset.labels, total=dataset.n, desc='Statistics'):
+            x.append(np.bincount(label[:, 0].astype(int), minlength=nc))
+        x = np.array(x)  # shape(128x80)
+        stats[split] = {'instances': {'total': int(x.sum()), 'per_class': x.sum(0).tolist()},
+                        'images': {'total': dataset.n, 'unlabelled': int(np.all(x == 0, 1).sum()),
+                                   'per_class': (x > 0).sum(0).tolist()}}
+    if verbose:
+        print(yaml.dump([stats], sort_keys=False, default_flow_style=False))
+    return stats