diff --git a/arrow-schema/Cargo.toml b/arrow-schema/Cargo.toml
index 628d4a683ca..230373f11c9 100644
--- a/arrow-schema/Cargo.toml
+++ b/arrow-schema/Cargo.toml
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ bench = false
 [dependencies]
 serde = { version = "1.0", default-features = false, features = ["derive", "std", "rc"], optional = true }
 bitflags = { version = "2.0.0", default-features = false, optional = true }
+criterion = { version = "0.5", default-features = false }
 
 [features]
 # Enable ffi support