Portugal's monthly unemployment rate edged up to 6.1% in September from 6.0% in the previous month, the National Statistics Institute (INE) said in its flash estimate on Wednesday.

The youth unemployment rate (15 to 24 years old) fell to 17.9% in September, from 18.7% in the previous month and from 22.7% a year ago. (Reporting by Joao Manuel Mauricio in Gdansk, editing by Andrei Khalip)