diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a2f753062..366e064dc 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 wheel
 setuptools >= 61, != 67.2.0
-numpy  >= 1.16
+numpy  >= 2.0.0
 scipy  >= 1.14
 Cython >= 0.25, < 3.0
-mpi4py >= 3.0.0
+mpi4py >= 4.0.0
 
 # Required to build h5py from source
 pkgconfig