Western world

When the Cardiff Space-Time Rift fractured resulting in time slips across Earth, Jack Harkness observed that half the Western world and a "good proportion" of the Eastern were asking if it had anything to do with Torchwood. (TV: End of Days)

Mrs Wormwood voiced her observation to Sarah Jane Smith that all the Western world did was eat. (TV: Invasion of the Bane)

Male fertility in the Western world on an alternate Earth, according to a study done by the alternate Torchwood Institute, was linked to lifespan. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)

In 2011, an America radio broadcast reported one morning that the banks were closing down across the Western world in "a disaster of almost biblical proportions." (TV: End of the Road) According to Allen Shapiro, half the Western world went "bust" in the wake of Miracle Day. (TV: The Gathering)