diff --git a/src/Normalizer/JsonApiDocumentTopLevelNormalizer.php b/src/Normalizer/JsonApiDocumentTopLevelNormalizer.php
index 32f2a94..9d5cf89 100644
--- a/src/Normalizer/JsonApiDocumentTopLevelNormalizer.php
+++ b/src/Normalizer/JsonApiDocumentTopLevelNormalizer.php
@@ -184,7 +184,9 @@ class JsonApiDocumentTopLevelNormalizer extends NormalizerBase implements Denorm
       return $serializer->normalize($entity, $format, $context);
     }, $entities);
 
-    return new JsonApiDocumentTopLevelNormalizerValue($normalizer_values, $object->getLinks(), $is_collection);
+    $total_count = $is_collection && $context['resource_type']->includeCount() ? $data->getTotalCount() : FALSE;
+
+    return new JsonApiDocumentTopLevelNormalizerValue($normalizer_values, $object->getLinks(), $is_collection, $total_count);
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/src/Normalizer/Value/JsonApiDocumentTopLevelNormalizerValue.php b/src/Normalizer/Value/JsonApiDocumentTopLevelNormalizerValue.php
index 544f580..3bfdc4b 100644
--- a/src/Normalizer/Value/JsonApiDocumentTopLevelNormalizerValue.php
+++ b/src/Normalizer/Value/JsonApiDocumentTopLevelNormalizerValue.php
@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ class JsonApiDocumentTopLevelNormalizerValue implements ValueExtractorInterface,
    */
   protected $isCollection;
 
+  /**
+   * @var int
+   */
+  protected $totalCount;
+
   /**
    * Instantiates a JsonApiDocumentTopLevelNormalizerValue object.
    *
@@ -56,8 +61,12 @@ class JsonApiDocumentTopLevelNormalizerValue implements ValueExtractorInterface,
    *   The URLs to which to link.
    * @param bool $is_collection
    *   TRUE if this is a serialization for a list.
+   * @param int $total_count
+   *   (optional) A total count of resources available in a collection without
+   *   respect for access control.
    */
-  public function __construct(array $values, array $links, $is_collection = FALSE) {
+  public function __construct(array $values, array $links, $is_collection = FALSE, $total_count = FALSE) {
+    assert($total_count === FALSE || $is_collection, 'Only collection documents can contain result counts.');
     $this->values = $values;
     array_walk($values, [$this, 'addCacheableDependency']);
     // Make sure that different sparse fieldsets are cached differently.
@@ -93,6 +102,7 @@ class JsonApiDocumentTopLevelNormalizerValue implements ValueExtractorInterface,
     }, []);
     // Filter the empty values.
     $this->includes = array_filter($this->includes);
+    $this->totalCount = $total_count;
   }
 
   /**
@@ -111,6 +121,10 @@ class JsonApiDocumentTopLevelNormalizerValue implements ValueExtractorInterface,
       'links' => $this->links,
     ];
 
+    if ($this->totalCount !== FALSE) {
+      $rasterized['meta']['count'] = $this->totalCount;
+    }
+
     foreach ($this->values as $normalizer_value) {
       if ($normalizer_value instanceof HttpExceptionNormalizerValue) {
         $previous_errors = NestedArray::getValue($rasterized, ['meta', 'errors']) ?: [];