diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 58cb764b211..8c3bfec4f60 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 **Bug fixes**
 
 - Fixed the return type of `getDefaultEuiMarkdownUiPlugins` ([#4567](https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/4567))
+- Fixed inverse handling of boolean sorting in `EuiDataGrid` ([#4561](https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/4561))
 
 ## [`31.8.0`](https://github.com/elastic/eui/tree/v31.8.0)
 
diff --git a/src/components/datagrid/data_grid_schema.tsx b/src/components/datagrid/data_grid_schema.tsx
index c25e232d879..79d5019dd50 100644
--- a/src/components/datagrid/data_grid_schema.tsx
+++ b/src/components/datagrid/data_grid_schema.tsx
@@ -93,21 +93,21 @@ export const schemaDetectors: EuiDataGridSchemaDetector[] = [
     comparator(a, b, direction) {
       const aValue = a.toLowerCase() === 'true';
       const bValue = b.toLowerCase() === 'true';
-      if (aValue < bValue) return direction === 'asc' ? 1 : -1;
-      if (aValue > bValue) return direction === 'asc' ? -1 : 1;
+      if (aValue < bValue) return direction === 'asc' ? -1 : 1;
+      if (aValue > bValue) return direction === 'asc' ? 1 : -1;
       return 0;
     },
     icon: 'tokenBoolean',
     sortTextAsc: (
       <EuiI18n
         token="euiDataGridSchema.booleanSortTextAsc"
-        default="True-False"
+        default="False-True"
       />
     ),
     sortTextDesc: (
       <EuiI18n
         token="euiDataGridSchema.booleanSortTextDesc"
-        default="False-True"
+        default="True-False"
       />
     ),
   },