diff --git a/src/coreclr/nativeaot/System.Private.CoreLib/src/Internal/Reflection/Core/AssemblyBinder.cs b/src/coreclr/nativeaot/System.Private.CoreLib/src/Internal/Reflection/Core/AssemblyBinder.cs
index cee8abb23ab324..b799c50aeac5f2 100644
--- a/src/coreclr/nativeaot/System.Private.CoreLib/src/Internal/Reflection/Core/AssemblyBinder.cs
+++ b/src/coreclr/nativeaot/System.Private.CoreLib/src/Internal/Reflection/Core/AssemblyBinder.cs
@@ -33,5 +33,6 @@ public abstract class AssemblyBinder
         public abstract bool Bind(RuntimeAssemblyName refName, bool cacheMissedLookups, out AssemblyBindResult result, out Exception exception);
 
         public abstract IList<AssemblyBindResult> GetLoadedAssemblies();
+        public abstract int GetLoadedAssembliesCount();
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/coreclr/nativeaot/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Reflection/Assembly.NativeAot.cs b/src/coreclr/nativeaot/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Reflection/Assembly.NativeAot.cs
index 2e0ba72727f33d..86d20bf94b2edb 100644
--- a/src/coreclr/nativeaot/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Reflection/Assembly.NativeAot.cs
+++ b/src/coreclr/nativeaot/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Reflection/Assembly.NativeAot.cs
@@ -35,13 +35,9 @@ public static Assembly Load(string assemblyString)
         }
 
         // Performance metric to count the number of assemblies
-        // Caching since in NativeAOT, the number will be the same
-        private static uint s_assemblyCount;
         internal static uint GetAssemblyCount()
         {
-            if (s_assemblyCount == 0)
-                s_assemblyCount = (uint)Internal.Reflection.Core.Execution.ReflectionCoreExecution.ExecutionEnvironment.AssemblyBinder.GetLoadedAssemblies().Count;
-            return s_assemblyCount;
+            return (uint)Internal.Reflection.Core.Execution.ReflectionCoreExecution.ExecutionEnvironment.AssemblyBinder.GetLoadedAssembliesCount();
         }
 
         [Obsolete("Assembly.LoadWithPartialName has been deprecated. Use Assembly.Load() instead.")]
diff --git a/src/coreclr/nativeaot/System.Private.TypeLoader/src/Internal/Reflection/Execution/AssemblyBinderImplementation.cs b/src/coreclr/nativeaot/System.Private.TypeLoader/src/Internal/Reflection/Execution/AssemblyBinderImplementation.cs
index fba014a2415992..43bda9d00fb01a 100644
--- a/src/coreclr/nativeaot/System.Private.TypeLoader/src/Internal/Reflection/Execution/AssemblyBinderImplementation.cs
+++ b/src/coreclr/nativeaot/System.Private.TypeLoader/src/Internal/Reflection/Execution/AssemblyBinderImplementation.cs
@@ -94,6 +94,11 @@ public sealed override IList<AssemblyBindResult> GetLoadedAssemblies()
             return loadedAssemblies;
         }
 
+        public sealed override int GetLoadedAssembliesCount()
+        {
+            return ScopeGroups.Length;
+        }
+
         //
         // Encapsulates the assembly ref->def matching policy.
         //