diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b1f277d..a3217da 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "bw_processing>=1.0",
     "lxml",
     "mrio_common_metadata",
-    "numpy<2",
+    "numpy<3",
     "openpyxl",
     "platformdirs",
     "pydantic",