diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 8c98f32..7cbe028 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ cycler==0.10.0
 kiwisolver==1.1.0
 matplotlib==3.1.1
 nltk==3.4.5
-numpy==1.16.4
+numpy==1.22.0
 pandas==0.24.2
 Pillow==8.1.1
 pyparsing==2.4.0