diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 7c88f097f..e24d9be79 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ fiona==1.8.0
 shapely==1.6.4.post2
 filelock==3.0.10
 bs4==0.0.1
-lxml==4.2.5
+lxml==4.6.2
 fuzzywuzzy==0.17.0
 python-Levenshtein==0.12.0
 dickens==1.0.1