diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index bd56442f..75413795 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ requires = [
     "setuptools_scm[toml] >=3.4",
     "wheel",
     "Cython >=0.29.21",
-    "numpy >=1.18",
+    "numpy >=2.0.0",
 ]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"