diff --git a/data/requirements.txt b/data/requirements.txt
index e84397ad3..c131fe54c 100644
--- a/data/requirements.txt
+++ b/data/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ beautifulsoup4==4.12.3
 defusedxml==0.7.1
 lxml==5.3.0
 Pillow==11.0.0
-polars==1.9.0
+polars==1.12.0
 pyarrow==18.0.0
 pydantic==2.9.2
 pyyaml==6.0.2