[17] They are predominantly found in North America, Europe, Australia, Caribbean, Gulf, Africa and other regions around the world.

There are also Telugus from other Indian states such as Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Maharashtra, who live outside India.

[18] The Telugu Boom refers to the migration of a large number of Telugu speaking people from the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana to the United States of America from late 80s largely consisting of the migration of students and Information Technology workers which continues to the present day.

[19] As of 2017, as per Katherine Hadda, American Consulate general in Hyderabad, one in every four Indians going to USA is a Telugu person.

[20] With the onset of IT revolution in the late 1980s and 1990s coupled with high unemployment and corruption led more families to send their undergraduate children for higher studies to universities of developed countries on better job prospects.