diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 239cae0..abc36b3 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ arrayref = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
 arrayvec = { version = "0.7", optional = true }
 bytes = { version = "1", optional = true }
 bitflags = "2"
-byteorder = "1"
 ciborium = { version = "0.2", optional = true }
 derive_more = "0.99"
 impls = { version = "1", optional = true }
diff --git a/src/database.rs b/src/database.rs
index 8eba400..d11d501 100644
--- a/src/database.rs
+++ b/src/database.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ use crate::{
     transaction::{RO, RW},
     Mode, ReadWriteOptions, SyncMode, Transaction, TransactionKind,
 };
-use byteorder::{ByteOrder, NativeEndian};
 use libc::c_uint;
 use mem::size_of;
 use sealed::sealed;
@@ -14,6 +13,7 @@ use std::{
     fmt::Debug,
     marker::PhantomData,
     mem,
+    ops::Deref,
     os::unix::ffi::OsStrExt,
     path::Path,
     ptr, result,
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ where
     /// Note:
     ///
     /// * MDBX stores all the freelists in the designated table 0 in each database,
-    ///   and the freelist count is stored at the beginning of the value as `libc::size_t`
+    ///   and the freelist count is stored at the beginning of the value as 32-bit integer
     ///   in the native byte order.
     ///
     /// * It will create a read transaction to traverse the freelist table.
@@ -390,16 +390,13 @@ where
 
         for result in cursor {
             let (_key, value) = result?;
-            if value.len() < mem::size_of::<usize>() {
+            if value.len() < mem::size_of::<u32>() {
                 return Err(Error::Corrupted);
             }
 
-            let s = &value[..mem::size_of::<usize>()];
-            if cfg!(target_pointer_width = "64") {
-                freelist += NativeEndian::read_u64(s) as usize;
-            } else {
-                freelist += NativeEndian::read_u32(s) as usize;
-            }
+            freelist +=
+                u32::from_ne_bytes(value.deref()[..mem::size_of::<u32>()].try_into().unwrap())
+                    as usize;
         }
 
         Ok(freelist)
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index f9c6dca..343cef3 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ pub use orm_uses::*;
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod test_utils {
     use super::*;
-    use byteorder::{ByteOrder, LittleEndian};
     use tempfile::tempdir;
 
     type Database = crate::Database<NoWriteMap>;
@@ -69,9 +68,8 @@ mod test_utils {
         )
         .unwrap();
 
-        for height in 0..1000 {
-            let mut value = [0u8; 8];
-            LittleEndian::write_u64(&mut value, height);
+        for height in 0..1000_u64 {
+            let value = height.to_le_bytes();
             let tx = db.begin_rw_txn().unwrap();
             let index = tx.create_table(None, TableFlags::DUP_SORT).unwrap();
             tx.put(&index, HEIGHT_KEY, value, WriteFlags::empty())
diff --git a/tests/environment.rs b/tests/environment.rs
index 0d98b0a..95b17e0 100644
--- a/tests/environment.rs
+++ b/tests/environment.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-use byteorder::{ByteOrder, LittleEndian};
 use libmdbx::*;
 use tempfile::tempdir;
 
@@ -146,9 +145,8 @@ fn test_stat() {
     assert_eq!(stat.entries(), 0);
 
     // Write a few small values.
-    for i in 0..64 {
-        let mut value = [0u8; 8];
-        LittleEndian::write_u64(&mut value, i);
+    for i in 0..64_u64 {
+        let value = i.to_le_bytes();
         let tx = db.begin_rw_txn().unwrap();
         tx.put(
             &tx.open_table(None).unwrap(),
@@ -190,9 +188,8 @@ fn test_freelist() {
     assert_eq!(freelist, 0);
 
     // Write a few small values.
-    for i in 0..64 {
-        let mut value = [0u8; 8];
-        LittleEndian::write_u64(&mut value, i);
+    for i in 0..64_u64 {
+        let value = i.to_le_bytes();
         let tx = db.begin_rw_txn().unwrap();
         tx.put(
             &tx.open_table(None).unwrap(),