diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/csv/UnivocityParser.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/csv/UnivocityParser.scala
index aa545e1a0c00..79143cce4a38 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/csv/UnivocityParser.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/csv/UnivocityParser.scala
@@ -33,29 +33,49 @@ import org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.FailureSafeParser
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types._
 import org.apache.spark.unsafe.types.UTF8String
 
+
+/**
+ * Constructs a parser for a given schema that translates CSV data to an [[InternalRow]].
+ *
+ * @param dataSchema The CSV data schema that is specified by the user, or inferred from underlying
+ *                   data files.
+ * @param requiredSchema The schema of the data that should be output for each row. This should be a
+ *                       subset of the columns in dataSchema.
+ * @param options Configuration options for a CSV parser.
+ */
 class UnivocityParser(
     dataSchema: StructType,
     requiredSchema: StructType,
     val options: CSVOptions) extends Logging {
   require(requiredSchema.toSet.subsetOf(dataSchema.toSet),
-    "requiredSchema should be the subset of schema.")
+    s"requiredSchema (${requiredSchema.catalogString}) should be the subset of " +
+      s"dataSchema (${dataSchema.catalogString}).")
 
   def this(schema: StructType, options: CSVOptions) = this(schema, schema, options)
 
   // A `ValueConverter` is responsible for converting the given value to a desired type.
   private type ValueConverter = String => Any
 
+  // This index is used to reorder parsed tokens
+  private val tokenIndexArr =
+    requiredSchema.map(f => java.lang.Integer.valueOf(dataSchema.indexOf(f))).toArray
+
+  // When column pruning is enabled, the parser only parses the required columns based on
+  // their positions in the data schema.
+  private val parsedSchema = if (options.columnPruning) requiredSchema else dataSchema
+
   val tokenizer = {
     val parserSetting = options.asParserSettings
-    if (options.columnPruning && requiredSchema.length < dataSchema.length) {
-      val tokenIndexArr = requiredSchema.map(f => java.lang.Integer.valueOf(dataSchema.indexOf(f)))
+    // When to-be-parsed schema is shorter than the to-be-read data schema, we let Univocity CSV
+    // parser select a sequence of fields for reading by their positions.
+    // if (options.columnPruning && requiredSchema.length < dataSchema.length) {
+    if (parsedSchema.length < dataSchema.length) {
       parserSetting.selectIndexes(tokenIndexArr: _*)
     }
     new CsvParser(parserSetting)
   }
-  private val schema = if (options.columnPruning) requiredSchema else dataSchema
 
-  private val row = new GenericInternalRow(schema.length)
+  private val row = new GenericInternalRow(requiredSchema.length)
 
   // Retrieve the raw record string.
   private def getCurrentInput: UTF8String = {
@@ -82,7 +102,7 @@ class UnivocityParser(
   //
   //   output row - ["A", 2]
   private val valueConverters: Array[ValueConverter] = {
-    schema.map(f => makeConverter(f.name, f.dataType, f.nullable, options)).toArray
+    requiredSchema.map(f => makeConverter(f.name, f.dataType, f.nullable, options)).toArray
   }
 
   /**
@@ -183,7 +203,7 @@ class UnivocityParser(
     }
   }
 
-  private val doParse = if (schema.nonEmpty) {
+  private val doParse = if (requiredSchema.nonEmpty) {
     (input: String) => convert(tokenizer.parseLine(input))
   } else {
     // If `columnPruning` enabled and partition attributes scanned only,
@@ -197,15 +217,21 @@ class UnivocityParser(
    */
   def parse(input: String): InternalRow = doParse(input)
 
+  private val getToken = if (options.columnPruning) {
+    (tokens: Array[String], index: Int) => tokens(index)
+  } else {
+    (tokens: Array[String], index: Int) => tokens(tokenIndexArr(index))
+  }
+
   private def convert(tokens: Array[String]): InternalRow = {
-    if (tokens.length != schema.length) {
+    if (tokens.length != parsedSchema.length) {
       // If the number of tokens doesn't match the schema, we should treat it as a malformed record.
       // However, we still have chance to parse some of the tokens, by adding extra null tokens in
       // the tail if the number is smaller, or by dropping extra tokens if the number is larger.
-      val checkedTokens = if (schema.length > tokens.length) {
-        tokens ++ new Array[String](schema.length - tokens.length)
+      val checkedTokens = if (parsedSchema.length > tokens.length) {
+        tokens ++ new Array[String](parsedSchema.length - tokens.length)
       } else {
-        tokens.take(schema.length)
+        tokens.take(parsedSchema.length)
       }
       def getPartialResult(): Option[InternalRow] = {
         try {
@@ -222,9 +248,11 @@ class UnivocityParser(
         new RuntimeException("Malformed CSV record"))
     } else {
       try {
+        // When the length of the returned tokens is identical to the length of the parsed schema,
+        // we just need to convert the tokens that correspond to the required columns.
         var i = 0
-        while (i < schema.length) {
-          row(i) = valueConverters(i).apply(tokens(i))
+        while (i < requiredSchema.length) {
+          row(i) = valueConverters(i).apply(getToken(tokens, i))
           i += 1
         }
         row
diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/csv/CSVSuite.scala b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/csv/CSVSuite.scala
index 84b91f6309fe..ae8110fdf170 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/csv/CSVSuite.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/csv/CSVSuite.scala
@@ -1579,4 +1579,33 @@ class CSVSuite extends QueryTest with SharedSQLContext with SQLTestUtils with Te
       }
     }
   }
+
+  test("SPARK-24676 project required data from parsed data when columnPruning disabled") {
+    withSQLConf(SQLConf.CSV_PARSER_COLUMN_PRUNING.key -> "false") {
+      withTempPath { path =>
+        val dir = path.getAbsolutePath
+        spark.range(10).selectExpr("id % 2 AS p", "id AS c0", "id AS c1").write.partitionBy("p")
+          .option("header", "true").csv(dir)
+        val df1 = spark.read.option("header", true).csv(dir).selectExpr("sum(p)", "count(c0)")
+        checkAnswer(df1, Row(5, 10))
+
+        // empty required column case
+        val df2 = spark.read.option("header", true).csv(dir).selectExpr("sum(p)")
+        checkAnswer(df2, Row(5))
+      }
+
+      // the case where tokens length != parsedSchema length
+      withTempPath { path =>
+        val dir = path.getAbsolutePath
+        Seq("1,2").toDF().write.text(dir)
+        // more tokens
+        val df1 = spark.read.schema("c0 int").format("csv").option("mode", "permissive").load(dir)
+        checkAnswer(df1, Row(1))
+        // less tokens
+        val df2 = spark.read.schema("c0 int, c1 int, c2 int").format("csv")
+          .option("mode", "permissive").load(dir)
+        checkAnswer(df2, Row(1, 2, null))
+      }
+    }
+  }
 }