diff --git a/elq/requirements.txt b/elq/requirements.txt
index 91a0455f..ffeab4ec 100644
--- a/elq/requirements.txt
+++ b/elq/requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ regex==2019.8.19
 matplotlib==3.1.0
 tqdm==4.32.1
 nltk==3.4.5
-numpy==1.17.2
+numpy==1.22.0
 segtok==1.5.7
 flair==0.4.3
 pytorch-transformers==1.2.0
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9e23a0cc..a2a5594f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ regex==2019.8.19
 matplotlib==3.1.0
 tqdm==4.32.1
 nltk==3.4.5
-numpy==1.17.2
+numpy==1.22.0
 segtok==1.5.7
 flair==0.6.1
 pytorch-transformers==1.2.0