diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c68d06b7d30..71b9781efb7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.htm
 
 - For tracestate's members, prepend the new element and remove the oldest one, which is over capacity (#2592)
 - Add event and link drop counts to the exported data from the `oltptrace` exporter. (#2601)
+- Change the debug message from the `sdk/trace.BatchSpanProcessor` to reflect the count is cumulative. (#2640)
 
 ### Fixed
 
diff --git a/sdk/trace/batch_span_processor.go b/sdk/trace/batch_span_processor.go
index 67e2732c3c7..56847d9ccba 100644
--- a/sdk/trace/batch_span_processor.go
+++ b/sdk/trace/batch_span_processor.go
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ func (bsp *batchSpanProcessor) exportSpans(ctx context.Context) error {
 	}
 
 	if l := len(bsp.batch); l > 0 {
-		global.Debug("exporting spans", "count", len(bsp.batch), "dropped", atomic.LoadUint32(&bsp.dropped))
+		global.Debug("exporting spans", "count", len(bsp.batch), "total_dropped", atomic.LoadUint32(&bsp.dropped))
 		err := bsp.e.ExportSpans(ctx, bsp.batch)
 
 		// A new batch is always created after exporting, even if the batch failed to be exported.