diff --git a/simptext/requirements.txt b/simptext/requirements.txt
index 8da5ca6..133728c 100644
--- a/simptext/requirements.txt
+++ b/simptext/requirements.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ kenlm==0.0.0
 lxml==3.6.0
 MarkupSafe==0.23
 nltk==3.2.1
-numpy==1.11.1
+numpy==1.22.0
 openpyxl==2.3.5
 Pattern==2.6
 pep8==1.7.0