diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 686dae586fc097f8e1461f54fdb50a8161762e89..37769bee37a9b149e453cc370e065d6fee412f13 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ def setup_package():
         install_requires=["linkahead>=0.13.1",
                           "jsonref",
                           "jsonschema[format]>=4.4.0",
-                          "numpy>=1.17.3",
+                          "numpy>=1.25",
                           "openpyxl>=3.0.7",
                           "pandas>=1.2.0",
                           "xlrd>=2.0",