diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb b/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb
index 207ab3603..78722682d 100644
--- a/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-python3 = "\
     python3-autobahn \
     python3-automat \
     python3-aws-iot-device-sdk-python \
-    python3-babel \
     python3-backcall \
     python3-bandit \
     python3-beautifulsoup4 \
diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-babel_2.9.1.bb b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-babel_2.9.1.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index 11c8d6010..000000000
--- a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-babel_2.9.1.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-DESCRIPTION = "A collection of tools for internationalizing Python applications"
-HOMEPAGE = "http://babel.edgewall.org/"
-LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=05fb707293a85504aa67afc8ea34d747"
-
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "bc0c176f9f6a994582230df350aa6e05ba2ebe4b3ac317eab29d9be5d2768da0"
-
-PYPI_PACKAGE = "Babel"
-
-inherit pypi setuptools3
-
-CLEANBROKEN = "1"
-
-RDEPENDS:${PN} += " \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-codecs \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-difflib \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-distutils \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-netserver \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-numbers \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-pickle \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-pytz \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-shell \
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-threading \
-"
-
-BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"