diff --git a/sentence_score_api_files/requirements.txt b/sentence_score_api_files/requirements.txt
index 08da8fc59..4c5c2325f 100644
--- a/sentence_score_api_files/requirements.txt
+++ b/sentence_score_api_files/requirements.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Jinja2==2.10.1
 keyring==10.6.0
 keyrings.alt==3.0
 MarkupSafe==1.1.1
-numpy==1.16.4
+numpy==1.22.0
 requests==2.22.0
 typing==3.6.6
 urllib3==1.25.3