diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index 3d167c7a..0b42d68a 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ joblib==1.0.1
 lockfile==0.12.2
 MarkupSafe==1.1.1
 msgpack==0.6.2
-numpy==1.21.0
+numpy==1.22.0
 nltk==3.6.6
 packaging==20.3
 pandas==1.2.3