diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index cacef69..e278f48 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ lxml==4.1.1
 Markdown==2.6.11
 mysqlclient==1.3.12
 nltk==3.2.5
-numpy==1.14.2
+numpy==1.22.0
 pandas==0.22.0
 parsel==1.4.0
 parso==0.1.1