diff --git a/examples/benchmarks/LightGBM/requirements.txt b/examples/benchmarks/LightGBM/requirements.txt
index 507d2d453db..3f455556b85 100644
--- a/examples/benchmarks/LightGBM/requirements.txt
+++ b/examples/benchmarks/LightGBM/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 pandas==1.1.2
-numpy==1.17.4
+numpy==1.21.0
 lightgbm==3.1.0