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George Christakos has written:

'Modern Spatiotemporal Geostatistics - Studies in Mathematical Geology, 6. -'

no country developed it, of course, but maybe you could say that the work of Krige started the field. He was South African.

That's a big question, because it depends on alot of things. If I were you, I'd try to get into a course. These tend to be expensive and hard to find though. If you forgo the official certification, you can still access a few geostats courses (including worked examples) on Edumine by paying for a monthly access fee (something like $40 CDN). You and I are in the same boat, actually! Good luck!