diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4c767345..f4726e01 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "text-unidecode == 1.3",
     "click >= 8.2,< 8.4",
     "normality == 3.1.0",
-    "countrynames == 1.16.10",
+    "countrynames == 1.17.0",
     "cryptography == 46.0.7",
     "followthemoney == 4.7.0",
     "fingerprints == 1.3.1",