diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index de15b27..fec2025 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 qiskit_aer==0.3.2
-numpy==1.16.2
+numpy==1.22.0
 qiskit==0.14.1