Colorization research has long been a focal point in computer vision and image processing. However, due to its inherently ill-posed nature, a reasonable assessment of the quality of their outcomes remains a challenge. Subjective evaluations are often restricted to a limited number of participants due to the high costs. This along with the existence of individual differences and subjective biases makes it difficult to derive convincing conclusions. Despite no need for participants in objective evaluation metrics, the currently widely applied objective metrics fail to accurately reflect the quality of colorization results, thereby impeding the attainment of consistency with subjective user opinions. Facing the above problems, we propose a novel Statistical Color Distribution-based Objective Evaluation Metric (SCD) for better consistency with human opinions. We first segment images into semantic regions. For each semantic type, a novel two-dimensional natural color distribution w.r.t. hue and saturation is collected to better align with human perceptual observations during image assessment. An adjacency weighted matrix considering surrounding neighboring regions smooths the color distribution table, enabling a more reliable quality assessment. The application of probability density eliminates the issue of frequency anomalies caused by human visual insensitivity, ensuring more accurate evaluation.Through extensive and comprehensive experiments involving two distinct datasets with the participation of 1321 volunteers, this paper demonstrates that the proposed SCD is more consistent with subjective user opinions compared with current objective metrics for evaluating colorization.