diff --git a/paper_fig/requirements.txt b/paper_fig/requirements.txt
index c271223..1bb6d73 100644
--- a/paper_fig/requirements.txt
+++ b/paper_fig/requirements.txt
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ msgpack==0.5.6
 msgpack-numpy==0.4.3.2
 murmurhash==0.28.0
 natsort==6.0.0
-numpy==1.16.3
+numpy==1.22.0
 oauthlib==3.0.1
 odfpy==1.4.0
 openpyxl==2.6.2