Portugal's monthly unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.6% in November compared to October, the National Statistics Institute (INE) said in its flash estimate on Monday.

The labour underutilisation rate stood at 11.6%, down from 11.8 percentage points in October.

Still, the youth unemployment rate among people aged between 16 and 24 increased to 23.5% in November from 21.3% in the previous month and rose from 18.9% a year ago, the INE said. (Reporting by Tiago Brandao, editing by Andrei Khalip)