diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 869d815..de1544f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
         'google-cloud-storage==1.14.0',
         'gunicorn==19.9.0',
         'nltk==3.2.1',
-        'numpy==1.16.2',
+        'numpy==1.22.0',
         'pandas==0.24.2',
         'PyPDF2==1.26.0',
         'requests==2.21.0',