diff --git a/src/lightning/pytorch/strategies/ddp.py b/src/lightning/pytorch/strategies/ddp.py
index 9031b6ee177f3..d77e67202c0b0 100644
--- a/src/lightning/pytorch/strategies/ddp.py
+++ b/src/lightning/pytorch/strategies/ddp.py
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ def num_processes(self) -> int:
     @property
     @override
     def distributed_sampler_kwargs(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
-        return {"num_replicas": (self.num_nodes * self.num_processes), "rank": self.global_rank}
+        return {"num_replicas": self.world_size, "rank": self.global_rank}
 
     @property
     def process_group_backend(self) -> Optional[str]: