diff --git a/datafusion/core/src/dataframe.rs b/datafusion/core/src/dataframe.rs
index 5f6fa6b4b8fd..30e14a2afa59 100644
--- a/datafusion/core/src/dataframe.rs
+++ b/datafusion/core/src/dataframe.rs
@@ -323,7 +323,8 @@ impl DataFrame {
     /// ```
     pub async fn describe(self) -> Result<Self> {
         //the functions now supported
-        let supported_describe_functions = vec!["count", "null_count", "max", "min"];
+        let supported_describe_functions =
+            vec!["count", "null_count", "mean", "min", "max"];
 
         let fields_iter = self.schema().fields().iter();
 
@@ -369,7 +370,19 @@ impl DataFrame {
                 )?
                 .collect()
                 .await?,
-            // max aggregation
+            // mean aggregation
+            self.clone()
+                .aggregate(
+                    vec![],
+                    fields_iter
+                        .clone()
+                        .filter(|f| f.data_type().is_numeric())
+                        .map(|f| datafusion_expr::avg(col(f.name())).alias(f.name()))
+                        .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
+                )?
+                .collect()
+                .await?,
+            // min aggregation
             self.clone()
                 .aggregate(
                     vec![],
@@ -378,12 +391,12 @@ impl DataFrame {
                         .filter(|f| {
                             !matches!(f.data_type(), DataType::Binary | DataType::Boolean)
                         })
-                        .map(|f| datafusion_expr::max(col(f.name())).alias(f.name()))
+                        .map(|f| datafusion_expr::min(col(f.name())).alias(f.name()))
                         .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
                 )?
                 .collect()
                 .await?,
-            // min aggregation
+            // max aggregation
             self.clone()
                 .aggregate(
                     vec![],
@@ -392,7 +405,7 @@ impl DataFrame {
                         .filter(|f| {
                             !matches!(f.data_type(), DataType::Binary | DataType::Boolean)
                         })
-                        .map(|f| datafusion_expr::min(col(f.name())).alias(f.name()))
+                        .map(|f| datafusion_expr::max(col(f.name())).alias(f.name()))
                         .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
                 )?
                 .collect()
diff --git a/datafusion/core/tests/dataframe.rs b/datafusion/core/tests/dataframe.rs
index 55076fe52469..85d968398efd 100644
--- a/datafusion/core/tests/dataframe.rs
+++ b/datafusion/core/tests/dataframe.rs
@@ -54,8 +54,9 @@ async fn describe() -> Result<()> {
         "+------------+-----+----------+-------------+--------------+---------+------------+-------------------+------------+-----------------+------------+---------------------+",
         "| count      | 8.0 | 8        | 8.0         | 8.0          | 8.0     | 8.0        | 8.0               | 8.0        | 8               | 8          | 8                   |",
         "| null_count | 8.0 | 8        | 8.0         | 8.0          | 8.0     | 8.0        | 8.0               | 8.0        | 8               | 8          | 8                   |",
-        "| max        | 7.0 | null     | 1.0         | 1.0          | 1.0     | 10.0       | 1.100000023841858 | 10.1       | null            | null       | 2009-04-01T00:01:00 |",
+        "| mean       | 3.5 | null     | 0.5         | 0.5          | 0.5     | 5.0        | 0.550000011920929 | 5.05       | null            | null       | null                |",
         "| min        | 0.0 | null     | 0.0         | 0.0          | 0.0     | 0.0        | 0.0               | 0.0        | null            | null       | 2009-01-01T00:00:00 |",
+        "| max        | 7.0 | null     | 1.0         | 1.0          | 1.0     | 10.0       | 1.100000023841858 | 10.1       | null            | null       | 2009-04-01T00:01:00 |",
         "+------------+-----+----------+-------------+--------------+---------+------------+-------------------+------------+-----------------+------------+---------------------+",
     ];
     assert_batches_eq!(expected, &describe_record_batch);