The World Is a Ghetto is the fifth album by American band War, released in late 1972 on United Artists Records.

[citation needed] The cover illustration, a light-hearted drawing showing a Rolls-Royce with a flat tire in a ghetto, was drawn by Howard Miller, with Lee Oskar credited with album concept.

[7] Furthermore, a 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition was made available as 4 CDs, 5 LPs, or as a digital download, and contained bonus tracks as well as "making of" recordings from the album sessions.

[14] Robert Christgau was less enthusiastic in Creem, believing he "should love this big Afro-roots band" in theory, but was critical of the fairly slow quality of the music and the lyrics, calling it "blackstrap-rock".

[16] The Washington Post critic Geoffrey Himes names it an exemplary release of the progressive soul development from 1968 to 1973.