diff --git a/data/requirements.txt b/data/requirements.txt
index de73e2ef7..e84397ad3 100644
--- a/data/requirements.txt
+++ b/data/requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ defusedxml==0.7.1
 lxml==5.3.0
 Pillow==11.0.0
 polars==1.9.0
-pyarrow==17.0.0
+pyarrow==18.0.0
 pydantic==2.9.2
 pyyaml==6.0.2
 requests==2.32.3