diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index 7a1b180..7693f7d 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Flask==1.1.1
 Flask-Cors==3.0.9
 joblib==0.14.1
 nltk==3.4.5
-numpy==1.18.1
+numpy==1.22.0
 pymongo==3.10.1
 scikit-learn==0.22.2.post1
 tweepy==3.8.0
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