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"Families like ours, who used to make sacrifices every year, are now unable even to buy one kilogramme of meat for our children," the 50-year-old said.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

But as of April 28, less than a litre of cooking oil cost around four million rials and eggs were 240,000 each, with meat costing from seven to 23 million rials per kilogramme.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

In a report published in September, the Center for Strategic and International Studies put the cost of a Falcon 9 launch to low Earth orbit at $2,600 per kilogramme.

From Reuters • Mar. 7, 2023

Fresh lamb prices were up even more steeply, rising by 10% to around £11 per kilogramme.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2022

The unit by which we measure quantities of heat is the calory, the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogramme of water one degree Centigrade.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane